hierarchical
of, belonging to, or characteristic of a hierarchy.
Origin of hierarchical
1- Also hi·er·ar·chic .
Other words from hierarchical
- hi·er·ar·chi·cal·ly, adverb
- an·ti·hi·er·ar·chic, adjective
- an·ti·hi·er·ar·chi·cal, adjective
- an·ti·hi·er·ar·chi·cal·ly, adverb
- non·hi·er·ar·chic, adjective
- non·hi·er·ar·chi·cal, adjective
- non·hi·er·ar·chi·cal·ly, adverb
Words Nearby hierarchical
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How to use hierarchical in a sentence
Any one of these parts can be exploited in this hierarchical structure, leading to a ripple effect.
To prevent cyberattacks, the government should limit the scope of a software bill of materials | Annie Siebert | August 26, 2021 | TechCrunchUntil the 1990s, many office spaces favored a transparently hierarchical way of working.
Who Wants To Return To The Office? | Angelica Puzio (angelicapuzio@gmail.com) | August 11, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightDNS is how you find things on the internet, but uses a centralized, hierarchical system.
Yat thinks emoji ‘identities’ can be a thing, and it has $20M in sales to back it up | Amanda Silberling | July 30, 2021 | TechCrunchHuman brains understand this part-whole composition by creating what’s called a “parse tree”—a branching diagram demonstrating the hierarchical relationship between the whole, its parts and subparts.
Geoffrey Hinton has a hunch about what’s next for AI | Siobhan Roberts | April 16, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewCertainly, there is potential here to outline the story of a woman wronged who then deliberately embraces the very traits that are deemed mad in a highly hierarchical, misogynist world.
Her crazy driving is a key element of Cruella de Vil’s evil. Here’s why. | Genevieve Carpio | April 2, 2021 | Washington Post
One road leads to freedom, sharing, and equality; the other to endless spying, a hierarchical structure, and repression.
How Four Upstarts Built and Crashed the Anti-Facebook | Jake Whitney | November 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThis makes ISIS a challenge for traditionally hierarchical organizations to counter.
ISIS Is Winning the Online Jihad Against the West | Ali Fisher, Nico Prucha | October 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTShe said Mars Hill “engages in heavy-handed discipline through a hierarchical structure.”
According to the hierarchical model of galaxy formation, the first galaxies were built out of smaller collections of matter.
Some of the First Galaxies Were Big Babies | Matthew R. Francis | September 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhat was once a far more hierarchical, top-down, and force-fed relationship is much flatter and more voluntary.
Four Principles for a Libertarian National Security State | Nick Gillespie | September 14, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd you can imagine how noses were flattened against the windows to see all this hierarchical swelldom.
The Nabob | Alphonse DaudetThese half-caste gentlemen of leisure fall into a system of hierarchical gradations.
The Theory of the Leisure Class | Thorstein VeblenThe principle of status runs through the entire hierarchical system, both visible and invisible.
The Theory of the Leisure Class | Thorstein VeblenBut the following facts must not be overlooked:—First, the new conception of the Church was not yet a hierarchical one.
History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) | Adolph HarnackConsequently we find nothing more than traces of the hierarchical conception of the Church in Tertullian.
History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) | Adolph Harnack
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